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BRIEF PACIFIC COAST NEWS
A Resume of Events in Northwest.
EVIDENCE OF STEADY GROWTH
News Gathered in All the Neighboring States-Improvement Noted in All Industries-Oregon. Patrick Gibson, a farmer, was killed by a train near Oregon City. Vale expects to be lighted by electric city by November 15 next. The smoke from burning forests is again obscuring the atmosphere along the coast. W. D. Huffman, of Diamond, has just made a sale of 70,000 pounds of wool at 12ยฝ cents. Malheur river farmers are putting in their third crop of alfalfa, and have mostly in the stack.
The next reunion of the soldiers and sailors of Southern Oregon will be held in Medford during September, 1896. The 10th semi-annual meeting of the Oregon State Association of Nurserymen will be held in Salem on Wednesday, October 6. Quail have never been known to be so thick in the vicinity of Ashland for many years, and offer some good sport for local gunners.
Junction City has a new fire engine for which it recently paid $1,100. The engine was tested and threw a 1ยฝ-inch stream 215 feet, and two 7-8-inch streams 140 feet each. The enrollment at the deaf-mute school at Salem is now 30. Of that number, seven are new pupils. Superintendent Knight expects a total of 50 or more within the next few years. The burglar who broke into the post office at Echo got $40 in money and some postage stamps. The money and stamps have been recovered. They were rolled up by the burglar in an old stocking.
The Umatilla county court has commenced legal proceedings to recover on 28 notes that were turned over to the county court by the receiver of the defunct Pendleton National bank in settlement of the county's claim against the bank. About the largest yield of wheat reported comes from the old Dawson place on the Long Tom. It was Defiance wheat and was grown by Frank B. Gardner. Six acres made an aggregate yield of 290 bushels, or 48ยฝ bushels per acre.
Klamath county farmers are busy harvesting and threshing, and crops are turning out better than was anticipated. Some crops have yielded enormously. It is reported that Shaw Bros.' crop of oats in Alkali valley went 766 bushels to the acre. Five persons were seriously injured in a collision at Eagle Point. Some miscreant had picked the switch which let a special go in on the side track which held a train of loaded log trucks. The special had been sent with two doctors to attend P. L. Phelps, who had been thrown from a buggy and was seriously injured.
J. W. Stamper, one of the pioneers of Umatilla county, is in his 73d year, and notwithstanding he raised 13,000 bushels of wheat this year with the assistance of a boy, who worked for him three months only. Mr. Stamper disposed of his wheat at 76 cents a bushel and finds himself in very good shape physically as well as financially. Mr. Stamper has resided for 26 years near Athens.